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SPEAK OUT AGAINST PROVISIONS OF THE 21ST CENTURY CURES ACT

The 21st Century Cures Act (HR 6) is up for vote in the US Senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan intend to push the bill through after the November 8 elections.

This bill will allow drugs and medical devices to be fast-tracked through FDA approvals without any requirement for clinical trials. Amendments are being proposed to exclude psychiatric devices and drugs from this bill, while allowing passage on medical life-saving drugs.

Speak out against the provisions of the bill intended to fast-track the ECT machine and other dangerous brain devices, which have never been fully approved by the FDA, and for which no long-term safety or efficacy has ever been established. These devices must be excluded from HR 6.

OPPOSE THE FDA’S PROPOSED RULING ON ECT

Speak out to prevent the FDA from lowering the risk classification of the electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) machine from Class III, high risk, to Class II, moderate risk. The lowered classification would place ECT machines in the same category as motorized wheelchairs and condoms, obviating the premarket approval process of clinical trials and regulatory review. You can also urge the ban of the ECT device altogether.

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International mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights calls for public action to oppose a proposal by the U.S. FDA to reclassify electroconvulsive (ECT) devices as being low risk, despite the documented health risks. The group has also launched a new public service announcement on the dangers of ECT as a part of this call to action.

The DVD lays out the history of psychiatry from its macabre 18th-century origins to today, where 100,000 patients die each year in psychiatric institutions and 20 million children have been put on potentially lethal, mind-altering drugs.